Someone determined to drop a dwell hand grenade within the Path of Exile subreddit yesterday once they posted a screenshot of probably the most unbelievable collections ever amassed in gaming. Somehow, a way, person Present-Plankton-734 has put collectively an entire set of each discontinued or altered merchandise that is ever been launched within the sport, the worth of which may’t be decided precisely—you are not technically allowed to purchase and promote PoE objects for actual cash—however is perhaps over $100,000.
Path of Exile got here out in October of 2013, and about each 4 months or so that they run a brand new league. Every league comes with a reset the place everybody’s characters are relegated to their everlasting mode, Standard. Most individuals who play PoE by no means fiddle with Standard, preferring to remain the place issues are new and glossy. This makes it a graveyard of kinds, the place innumerable characters, as soon as liked, now languish by no means to be logged in once more.
One quirk of Standard is that objects aren’t up to date like they’re within the leagues. If an merchandise is patched, nerfed, or in any other case modified, this does not have an effect on Standard. So older objects, some which were eternally modified, can exist of their authentic state in Standard as an echo from the previous. Add in particular occasion objects, promotional releases, and kit that is had its artwork up to date as a part of regular growth and also you get a set akin to a bunch of Magic playing cards with printing errors.
Despite its seemingly area of interest nature, there’s an enormous market locally for stuff like this. In over 3,000 hours taking part in PoE, I’ve by no means seen a mirror (probably the most useful foreign money merchandise that exists within the sport) drop and a few of these objects are value tons of and even 1000’s of mirrors.
Take, for instance, the shining jewel of Present-Plankton-734’s assortment. The PvP Season 1 reward Dream Fragments is the blue ring you see sitting all by itself within the prime heart of the screenshot. Only 4 exist in all the world—GGG ran a particular PvP occasion for one month in late 2014/early 2015 and to get the ring you needed to amass a ridiculous quantity of factors. Two gamers every on the US and EU ladders achieved this, and that is it. Those 4 are the one 4 that exist. And that is assuming the unique homeowners did not vendor them, or delete them, or hit them with a Vaal orb like a psychopath.
The rarity on stuff like this makes a worth inconceivable to foretell completely—like tremendous uncommon collectibles in actual life, it largely comes right down to what somebody can pay for it for the time being. Estimates for this assortment, nonetheless, exceed $100,000.
I reached out to the poster to ask about their undertaking accumulating all this stuff, however they most popular to remain nameless, telling me they feared that if their information received out their account could also be compromised. I am unable to actually say I blame them—there have been some excessive profile hacks recently, and I am unable to think about a goal extra juicy than this.
And then there’s the lurking query of how the objects had been acquired. The authentic Reddit thread in regards to the assortment is rife with posters accusing OP of shopping for the objects (or the mirrors required to purchase them off commerce website) with actual cash, one thing GGG cracks down on with nice vengeance and livid anger. If they’re certainly responsible of violating phrases of service, OP’s whole assortment could be deleted by the devs mainly instantly.
Either method, it is an extremely spectacular feat (y’know, assuming it is an actual screenshot. Of course, the period of time and sport information it might take to create that is… properly, it is so much). Collections like this do not come alongside daily, and as somebody who’s performed the sport for a very long time, it is tremendous cool to see the sport’s historical past all gathered in a single place—even when, like trendy museums, it is not with out its justifiable share of questions on provenance.
